When Nasreen Qureshi and her husband, Moin, acquired the five-acre plot on which their current New Delhi estate now stands, they hired Paris-based decorator Jean-Louis Deniot to fufill their vision. The starting point for the design of the 25,000-square-foot, five-bedroom home was a photo of Picasso's 19th-century Villa California in Cannes that became his home in 1955. "I wanted a house that looks 100 years old," Nasreen explains. Picasso's famed villa is known for french design influences and an uninterrupted view of the sea. In India, Deniot included a drawing room sofa that recalls the designs of the acclaimed 20th-century French designer Jean-Charles Moreux, and the dining room pays homage to the villa with Empire-style wall paneling. The garden's elegant layout features a black-marble pool surrounded by balustrades, alleyways, and beds of jasmine and roses.